100+ Legal & Compliance Jobs in Raleigh, NC

Observed local government data shows a wide range: the Raleigh-Cary legal occupation family had a 2025 mean wage of $125,750, a median of $85,990, a 25th percentile of $62,710, and a 75th percentile of $166,820; a separate BLS regional release put average hourly pay for legal occupations at $60.46. More current directional signals are higher at the top end: sampled Raleigh-Cary postings center on about $126k to $172k, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows mean offered salary on new North Carolina openings at about $112,210 (n=129).

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Advertised pay

Across the 68 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $83,042 at the 25th percentile, $125,234 at the median and $210,262 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 15, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Raleigh-Cary is a solid place to work in legal, compliance, and risk, but it is not an easy place to break in. Metro unemployment was 3.1% in August 2026, total nonfarm jobs were up 2.2338% year-over-year, and professional and business services jobs were up 2.9566%, which supports underlying demand for legal and risk talent. But Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows North Carolina legal, compliance & risk employment up 2.9% year-over-year while active postings are down 7.8%, so the market looks stable but tighter than last year on open-seat availability.

Best positioned: Mid-career candidates who can show legal research, risk management, negotiation, contract negotiation, or regulatory compliance skills—and who are open to on-site or hybrid work—have the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not confuse a strong local economy with easy hiring: only about 5% of sampled postings are entry-level, remote roles are only about 10%, and sponsorship is almost nonexistent in postings that disclose it.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 118 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Nipro Corp.: 12 open roles
2. ACA Group: 4 open roles
3. Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo, LLP: 4 open roles
4. Ogletree Deakins’ Immigration Practice Group: 4 open roles
5. IQVIA Inc: 3 open roles
6. North Carolina Real Estate Commission: 3 open roles
7. ABB: 2 open roles
8. Cisco Systems, Inc: 2 open roles
9. Cornerstone Building Brands, Inc.: 2 open roles
10. Dauntless Discovery: 2 open roles

Where the openings are

• Raleigh: 58
• Durham: 21
• Cary: 8
• Wake County: 6
• Morrisville: 4
• Clayton: 2
• Wake Forest: 2
• Fayetteville: 1

Work arrangement

on-site 67 (57%), hybrid 35 (30%), remote 15 (13%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is spread across both law firms and in-house teams rather than one dominant buyer. In the Raleigh-Cary posting sample, hiring is fragmented across employers, and the most consistently active names include Lenovo Inc., Sands Anderson, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Axiom, DLA Piper, Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, and Carolina Family Estate Planning. The biggest concentration is still private-practice and business-law work. Legal services account for about 30% of sampled postings, law practice about 20%, and a broad legal bucket about 15%; fresh local moves by Nelson Mullins and Poyner Spruill reinforce demand around corporate transactions, commercial lending, and commercial disputes. There is also a meaningful in-house and regulated-industry lane. Pharmaceutical manufacturing makes up about 10% of the sample and financial services about 5%, while the most-requested skills include risk management, contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, project management, and legal research.

• Business law firms (high): The deepest local concentration is still in legal services and law practice, especially commercial, transactional, disputes, and lending-related work.
• In-house legal and contracts at larger employers (moderate): Large employers account for about 30% of the local sample, and recurring employer names include Lenovo Inc. and Axiom alongside major firms.
• Regulated-industry compliance and risk (moderate): Pharmaceutical manufacturing and financial services are smaller than law-firm hiring, but they line up well with risk management and regulatory-compliance skill demand.
• Litigation and case-driven support (limited): Legal writing and case management still show up in the skill mix, and local signals include personal-injury and dispute-related hiring activity.

Where to focus: Prioritize mid-level roles that sit at the overlap of contracts, risk, and business operations, especially inside large employers or firms serving corporate and regulated clients.

Roles worth searching next

• Legal operations specialist: This path uses CLM, project management, workflow design, and AI-oversight skills that are showing up around legal teams.
• Contract administrator or procurement specialist: It is a natural bridge if your strongest assets are contract negotiation, review, and lifecycle discipline rather than courtroom or advisory work.
• Employee relations or HR compliance partner: Employment-law expansion and regulatory-compliance work create overlap with workplace policy, investigations, and documentation-heavy HR roles.
• Regulatory affairs or quality-systems specialist: Local demand includes pharmaceutical manufacturing alongside regulatory-compliance skills, which creates a credible pivot for documentation-minded legal candidates.

What postings ask for

• Legal research (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most-requested hard skill in the local posting sample, appearing in about 30% of postings. Who: All candidate types, especially paralegals, junior attorneys, and investigators.
• Regulatory compliance (differentiator | immediate): It appears among the most-requested local skills and also maps to national demand for regulatory remediation work. Who: Compliance candidates, in-house counsel, risk analysts, and switchers from regulated sectors.
• Contract negotiation and contract review (differentiator | immediate): Local postings frequently ask for contract negotiation, and national legal employers are actively seeking contract review and CLM-related capability. Who: In-house applicants, commercial attorneys, contracts managers, and procurement-adjacent candidates.
• Risk management (differentiator | immediate): Risk management shows up in about 15% of the local sample, which makes it a clean bridge between pure legal roles and broader compliance or operational work. Who: Risk analysts, compliance managers, internal-controls professionals, and career switchers from operations.
• CLM implementation (premium | near-term): CLM implementation is singled out nationally as an in-demand skill in legal and compliance, which makes it more valuable than generic contract experience. Who: Mid-career candidates aiming for in-house, legal ops, or contract-heavy roles.
• AI-assisted legal research and prompt design (premium | near-term): Robert Half says 67% of employers offer higher pay for relevant AI skills, Deloitte found 96% of senior legal leaders expect technology and AI literacy to grow in importance, and a Prompt Engineering for Law specialization is already available. Who: Mid-career lawyers, paralegals, legal ops staff, and anyone competing for premium in-house roles.

Questions about this market

What do Legal, Compliance & Risk roles pay in Raleigh-Cary, NC?

Observed local government data shows a wide range: the Raleigh-Cary legal occupation family had a 2025 mean wage of $125,750, a median of $85,990, a 25th percentile of $62,710, and a 75th percentile of $166,820; a separate BLS regional release put average hourly pay for legal occupations at $60.46. More current directional signals are higher at the top end: sampled Raleigh-Cary postings center on about $126k to $172k, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows mean offered salary on new North Carolina openings at about $112,210 (n=129). This is a strong-paying market relative to the statewide all-occupations offered-salary benchmark of about $63,996, but the distribution is attorney-heavy and experience-heavy.

Where is demand for Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Raleigh-Cary, NC concentrated?

Real opportunity is spread across both law firms and in-house teams rather than one dominant buyer. In the Raleigh-Cary posting sample, hiring is fragmented across employers, and the most consistently active names include Lenovo Inc., Sands Anderson, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Axiom, DLA Piper, Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, and Carolina Family Estate Planning. The biggest concentration is still private-practice and business-law work. Legal services account for about 30% of sampled postings, law practice about 20%, and a broad legal bucket about 15%; fresh local moves by Nelson Mullins and Poyner Spruill reinforce demand around corporate transactions, commercial lending, and commercial disputes. There is also a meaningful in-house and regulated-industry lane. Pharmaceutical manufacturing makes up about 10% of the sample and financial services about 5%, while the most-requested skills include risk management, contract negotiation, regulatory compliance, project management, and legal research.

Which employers are hiring the most Legal, Compliance & Risk talent in Raleigh-Cary, NC?

Recent postings show the most activity from Lenovo Inc. (5 postings), Sands Anderson (5 postings), Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP (5 postings), Axiom (5 postings), DLA Piper (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Legal, Compliance & Risk roles in Raleigh-Cary, NC be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 10% are remote and 35% hybrid, with 50% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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